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Slack, Gitter, HipChat, Skype, Hangouts… it’s not like we don’t have choices. Gitter has been my primary chat app given the Scala community is almost exclusively using it. I’m not much of a gamer, so I wasn’t exposed to Discord until I decided to use Vue.js +…
I never imagined we’d be debating the value of unit testing in 2016. It’s not about anything other than fulfilling the commitment that we’ll do our best. Everything else is just details.
Fact: The Singleton design pattern is generally accepted as the defining poster child for the “anti-pattern” movement.
We’re critical of the solution, but not the use case given there exist many situations that call for a single, system-level instance. E.g…
We have gone overboard. We have taken DI Frameworks to an extreme, arguing that component dependencies and “plumbing” should not be part of the application. I’m not saying that uses cases for DI don’t exist, they do. Alleviating the perceived burden of managing static…